February 26, 2009

• something old something new

  Can I just take a moment to exclaim how excited I am about Helvetica on Xanga?  The font practically writes itself.

  I’d like to address my new layout, if I may.  Though potentially read as a religious message, that was not my intent.  I believe art [good art at that] is often rejected by the masses as weird, worthless, or nothing more than cheap decoration for one’s bathroom.  Whenever some form has a breakthrough to mainstream, the uneducated claim credit and eventually prostitute the work onto greeting cards, ad campaigns, etc.  As sex sells, sexy ideas sell iPods, I suppose.

  The art world is really just an elaborate set of ideas, values, whatever.  One might be shocked to realize how much advertising, vision, and morality is really the responsibility of the weird guy in the office with blue hair and a stud in his lip.  The world loves our work because it is genuine to us, and the honesty is sexy.  [I'd like to now commentate on my use of "sexy" not once, twice, but three times in two paragraphs.]  They are currently loving our mode of fashion, our frenzied sense of decor [not because we're so cool, but because most of us are struggling starting out], and our nerdy fresh attitudes.  The bravery of these thoughts are so attractive, not because it’s a brave new world out there, but because we are brave within it. 

  Our messages hurt too much for too many, the very reason they deny us.
  

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